Our work
The expanded acronym for IPU
What is Integrated Practice Unit?
The day of the winter solstice in 2024
What is December 21st?
The VCH hospital affiliated with UBC as a teaching hospital
What is Vancouver General Hospital?
the term for patients who carry MRSA but do not show symptoms
What is Colonized?
The countries Aleks visited on her last vacation
What are England and Portugal?
A model of a health system that is built on growing and developing with evidence-based and data driven practices
What is a learning health system?
A popular holiday drink usually only in grocery stores from mid-November to early January
What is eggnog?
What is 2011
the most common symptoms of CDI?
what is Diarrhea
The most ordered Thomas Haas cake by our team
What is the Matcha Yuzu cake (ordered 3 times)
A dashboard that Saffrin and Mokka collaborated on in the summer
What is the patient experience dashboard?
The town the Grinch steals Christmas from?
What is Whoville
The three values of VCH
What is:
We care for everyone
We are always learning
We strive for better results
An example of a CPO gene
What are one of:
The favorite drink order of Mokka at Thomas Haas
What is iced London Fog?
The staff that were piloted in the ED and we heard about via Michelle's presentation at the PHSA data summit
What are Dedicated De-escalation Staff?
In the song “The Twelve Days of Christmas”, the gift that is given on the fifth day
Five golden rings
The amount of people in the regions that VCH serves
What are 1.25 million people?
the term for a disease that occurs regularly within a population or geographic area?
what is endemic?
What is startrek?
The name of the QA service account
What is VCH\SVC_Task_Scheduler?
The province where Boxing day is not a stat holiday?
What is quebec?
The amount of Urgent/Primary care clinics that VCH's has
the "5 Moments for Hand Hygiene" recommended by the World Health Organization
What is "Before patient contact, before aseptic task, after body fluid exposure, after patient contact, and after contact with patient surroundings"?
A description of Jack's thesis
A Qualitative Study Exploring Infection Control Practitioner Perspectives on Automated Hospital Acquired Infection Surveillance Technology in Acute Care